Abraham Lincoln letter seeking job for Black friend and valet now on display at presidential museum

An 1861 job-reference letter from Abraham Lincoln on behalf of a young Black friend and valet provides a glimpse of an ...
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Abraham Lincoln's 1861 letter seeking job for Black friend now displayed at museum

Abraham Lincoln's 1861 handwritten letter recommending his Black friend William Johnson for a job is now on display at the ...
ABC News

Girl's Letter Changes Face of Lincoln

A little girl wrote a letter to Abraham Lincoln urging him to grow "whiskers." Jan. 17, 2009— -- The town of Westfield, N.Y. remains, in some ways, as it was back in 1860. Rural and Republican.
Rutland Herald

How Lincoln got his beard

The Vermont Humanities Council recently launched its Civil War Book of Days e-newsletter in honor of the Civil War’s 150th anniversary. The weekly newsletter is sent electronically for free to anyone ...